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From: geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks)
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Subject: Re: Hundreds of books on an optical disk
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Date: 4 Nov 88 17:38:14 GMT
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In article <5821@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>Completely agree!  I hope it happens, but as someone who did a minor
>feasibility study on doing it himself, I have to say it seems a long
>way off.  The barriers are formidable.
>-- 

I think you will find that libraries, including the Library of
Congress will be doing this for us.  Book preservation is very
expensive and putting them all on CD while the actual copies get
stored in CO2 or such is one answer to this problem.  It may be
a lot cheaper for a library to give you electronic access to
its collection than actual access.  The only thing is, I like
to read in bed, and even a laptop gets heavy on my chest.